West Virginia Poison Center sees continued uptick of adolescent intentional self-poisoning and suspected suicide

The West Virginia Poison Center is reporting an increase in intentional self-poisoning among adolescents, particularly among 15-year-olds— an upward trend that has been largely uninterrupted for over seven years, despite a nearly six percent drop in the population of children 18 years and younger since 2014 in the state. According to Dr. Read more…

Project Update: Kids and the Drug Crisis

In 2020, Think Kids launched a new initiative to better address the unmet needs of kids affected by the drug epidemic on the community level. It’s a grassroots, ground-up approach to the continuing challenges our kids face— issues often left unaddressed. While our focus is on a six-county area— Boone, Read more…

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